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Chapter 4

The next day Hermione, George, Ron and Ginny woke up to an empty house. Mrs Weasley left a note saying that they were going to be a while considering that they had to convince the Dursley's to move, as Harry had been unable to, also they had to be sure of getting out safely and waiting for signals. She also said that they had to make their own lunch and dinner, as they probably wouldn't be back until late. Ron was upset about the food situation as none of them could cook like Mrs Weasley.

"I'll cook" said Hermione, this caused Ron to burst out laughing

"You cook?" he asked before laughing again. Hermione looked at him angrily but then didn't want to over react because of her hormones, so she just used a silencing charm to shut Ron up, since now she was of age to use magic, as was Ron but he didn't have his wand.

"Yes I will cook, Ronald. I may not be as good as your mum, but I can cook. I took a cooking class in school before I came to Hogwarts. I can't do it with magic but I can do it manually. For lunch however, you can have a fry up, you can do that for yourself. For dinner we will have roast beef and potatoes. Deal with it and go do something that does not involve laughing at me, or getting in my way" Hermione said calmly before taking the silencing charm off Ron and kicking him out of the kitchen. George and Ginny stayed there for a while, helping Hermione start dinner since it could let the preparing be finished before going to do something fun.

For the rest of the day Ron decided to stay in his room. No one knew what he was doing, but he only came out to eat when Hermione called out dinner. When he arrived down, he gave the roast beef and potatoes a reproachful look before eating it. He didn't say anything to anybody and didn't even compliment on the food or thank Hermione. George seemed to think Hermione left the silencing charm on him permanently and thanked her profusely.

At around eight, they all heard noises from downstairs, they all ran down and saw Mr and Mrs Weasley carrying someone invisible in. Hermione and Ginny were the first down, and when they were in the living room they saw the damage of what happened to their friends and family. Fred had a cut on his cheek which was issuing blood, Tonks was holding an ice pack to her head while sporting dust and blood on her robes, hands and face, Mr and Mrs Weasley had their own injuries including what seemed to be a sprained ankle for Mr Weasley and a bust shoulder for Mrs Weasley, however none of them were concentrating on themselves, but upon the couch where Mr and Mrs Weasley laid the invisible person. They removed the invisibility cloak and there lay Harry unconscious. Ginny landed on the ground beside him and tears ran down her face as she held his hand.

"He-he's n-not dead is h-he?" she asked through her tears

"He was hit by a curse. Nothing serious, but we couldn't help him while on the run. We can fix him up right here and he'll be as good as new" answered Mr Weasley

"We were attacked by Death Eaters," Fred said as he saw George's questioning looks, "They were waiting for us, they knew we were going to rescue Harry before his birthday and his protection bonds ended. But he saw that they ended as soon as we convinced the Dursley's to leave, once they left the house and didn't call it home anymore, You-Know-Who attacked them and killed his aunt and uncle, he left Dudley strangely. Dudley is at St. Mungos but he isn't himself. Anyways once they killed Mr and Mrs Dursley the Death Eaters surrounded the house and caught us by surprise. Although Harry was still packing his trunk and he quickly pulled his invisibility cloak over himself. I don't know the rest though..." explained Fred

"Harry managed to get out and grabbed hold of me before I Apparated. None of the Death Eaters could summon his cloak for some reason though. But before we left..." said Remus slowly, before looking at his new wife, "Mad-Eye was with us, he was hit by the killing curse. I'm sorry but Mad-Eye Moody is dead" as he said this Tonks went into tears, she had been the closest to him, as he had trained her to become an Auror, "I'm sorry Tonks I know you cared very much about him" he comforted her

"What curse hit Harry?" asked Mrs Weasley

"I'm not sure, there was so much yelling and so many curses being thrown everywhere. I do know however, that it was a curse with a purple light" said Remus

"Purple..?" asked Hermione slowly

"Yes, it was purple and it hit Harry in the back as he grabbed me, it had been aimed at me since they didn't know Harry was there" Remus told Hermione

"I don't know what curse it was, but the curse I was hit with at the Ministry was purple. Madame Pomfrey gave me many potions for it. He should be conscious by tomorrow if we get the correct potions" explained Hermione. Once she had said this everyone shuffled around, Remus and Tonks went to the fireplace to Floo to the school, and all the others went to inspecting each others injuries. While everyone did this, Hermione and Ginny stayed sitting beside Harry, with tears falling down both their cheeks. Ginny had calmed down now, since she knew Harry was alive. George was standing beside Hermione with her arms around her shoulders, while Ron sat to the side.

With the news of Mr and Mrs Dursley's, and Mad-Eye Moody's death, they all made a toast to Mad-Eye with their Firewhisky, while Hermione made a silent one to the Dursley's. Even though they treated Harry badly, and made his life hell, they still took him in and protected him from Voldemort, even if Vernon Dursley wasn't in on it, Petunia still cared about her nephew and sister deep down and that's why she took Voldemort's return with difficulty according to Harry. Voldemort had killed her sister and ruined her nephew's life and ended hers and her husbands, leaving Dudley like Harry.

Remus and Tonks returned some time later with Madame Pomfrey and all the appropriate potions. Hagrid who had been hiding out back, outside came in and carried Harry up to his room. He had not come in because he was afraid Harry was really dead and he did not want to see his favourite student and friend dead and lifeless. Once informed of Harry's condition and the fact that Harry was really alive, he happily came in and carried Harry upstairs. That night Hermione slept in her own bed in Ginny's room, Fred was back and was staying in his room with George. George had argued that it wouldn't matter because Angelina would be sleeping in Fred's bed with him and that they wouldn't care if Hermione was in there also. Hermione wasn't just staying out because Fred and Angelina were there, but because she wanted to be alone. She thought she had lost her best friend, and she was still in shock.

The next day everyone was awake by midday, that is excluding Harry. Only Fred and Angelina stayed after the rescue of Harry, the other Order members and helpers left before everyone went to bed. At around dinner time harry finally awoke, he complained of a sore stomach and head but that was it. Ginny sat with him all day, even before he woke up and afterwards. Hermione saw a repeat of what happened when Malfoy attacked Harry in Hogsmeade and Ginny staying by his side the whole time. Hermione and George were talking once again, as the shock died down after sleep for Hermione. She didn't inform George of her feelings and just continued on as normal.

Two days after Harry's return was his seventeenth birthday, they all had a wonderful party including all the Order members, the Weasley's and Hermione. Harry had been tempted to maybe invite some people from school, considering he never talked to them outside of school and he wanted to start. The people he was thinking of asking were Neville and Neville. Mr and Mrs Weasley knew that Harry really wanted to invite them but they had to be safe, and the safest to be was to not invite anyone outside the Order into the Burrow grounds. They explained this to Harry, he understood but it didn't stop his disappointment. As the weeks then months went by Harry was getting stronger and better, everyone visited him every day during lunch and dinner and the week before school was to start again Harry was able to get out of bed and join them at the table for dinner. Not only had Harry been getting better, but Hermione was getting bigger and it was getting more and more difficult to hide.

Fleur and Bill got married and had a quiet ceremony including Fleur's closest family members and Bill's closest family and second family(Hermione and Harry). Once married Bill and Fleur left for their new home in the country where they were remote and had many wards and protections around it incase The Burrow or any of them came under attack they could go to Shell Cottage, which had more protection than Grimmauld Place, according to Bill, but he couldn't hold Order meetings there as Grimmauld Place did, as it was much too small. At the wedding Harry noticed how beautiful Ginny was and wished he could ask her to dance, but he didn't want other people to notice their love for one another. Harry cared too much about her for her to be in such danger.

The night after the wedding, the Weasley family, minus Percy, Bill and the newly added member Fleur Weasley, and Harry and Hermione were eating dinner when Hermione felt quite a surprise. The baby had kicked and caused her to jump up and sub consciously put her hand on her stomach. Some stared at her in curiosity and some in confusion.

"Sorry, may I be excused? I don't feel too well" lied Hermione, moving her hands onto her stomach so that they looked like she was holding it because she was sick. No one gave her a second glance after that and she ran to her room. Minutes after she had entered her room, George wasn't far behind

"Hermione! What's wrong?" he asked urgently

"Nothings wrong George. Your baby just decided to play football for the first time ever while I was eating" said Hermione rubbing her protruding belly.

"What? He- I mean she- I mean our baby kicked for the first time?" he asked astonished, Hermione nodded her head and stood up. She walked over to George and placed his hand on her stomach, and George's face lit up. George could feel his baby moving and kicking.

"Well I can definitely tell that our child will be one hell of a football player" said Hermione, laughing at George's confused expression, "Muggle sport. Dean Thomas talked about it all the time...? Team runs around kicking a ball trying to kick it into a goal?" said Hermione smiling

"Ah yeah. I remember Dean trying to explain that to me once. I gave up after running and kicking" said George also smiling, "Well I guess our kid can be a football player and Quidditch player"

The week went by so fast and by the time they knew it, Hermione was returning to Hogwarts. She hadn't taken this separation as well as normal. With her hormones on the fritz and her dependence on George, she didn't think she was going to be able to cope with school and being pregnant. Before she went downstairs, Hermione cried into George's shoulder and let all her feelings go.

"Hermione listen to me!" said George taking Hermione by the shoulders and bending down to look right into her eyes, "You will not fail school, you will not lose your friends, and you do not NEED me. You can do this, it's only for three more months and then Dumbledore will be sending you back here to have the baby and then we can both live in Hogwarts together so that you can concentrate on your school work while I look after the baby" said George, "Hermione calm down. Do not worry. Right now you should just think about school, and writing me a letter everyday" smiled George. Hermione calmed down and wiped away her tears before going downstairs, and once down she climbed into the Ministry car with Ron, Ginny, Harry, and Mr and Mrs Weasley. Ron was confused as to why they needed the cars, as Hermione could Apparate now, so she should have taken one of them in side-along Apparation and Mr or Mrs Weasley could have taken the other. Mr Weasley, who of course knew of the pregnancy and its effect on the baby explained to Ron that they didn't want to split up as Hermione had only been doing it a few months and had never done side-along Apparation, so she could end up somewhere different and then he asked Ron to explain how the trunks would get to the train. Of course Ron had no answer to this and kept quiet as they climbed into the cars.

Once at the station, they all said good bye to Mr and Mrs Weasley and boarded the train. The journey was not very eventful, however Hermione did ask Harry why he had decided to come to Hogwarts this year, considering he had decided to go look for Hocruxes. Harry explained that Professor McGonagall visited him one day while he was still not well enough to walk around the house.

"So how did she convince you Harry?" she asked as Ron was asleep on the couch and Neville was out finding Trevor with Luna, and Ginny was with her year for the first half of the train journey.

"When she came and visited she told me that there was a portrait of Dumbledore in the school that I could talk to. With him he could help me with my mission, and that by going off and missing school I wouldn't be able to talk to Dumbledore and learn more about the Hocruxes. However, she did say that I can't see him until after Christmas, I'm not sure why but that's all she said" explained Harry

"So...because there's a portrait of Dumbledore in the school that you cant talk to that's why you decided to stay?" asked a confused Hermione. She knew that Harry was adamant about going in search of the Hocruxes so he could defeat Voldemort once and for all, but McGonagall had convinced him to stay. She just didn't understand

"That's not it. She asked me if I could just go back to school so as to learn more about what I was going after. I told her I couldn't stay, even if Dumbledore was there to talk to, but she made me a promise. Hermione I know I was so motivated to go and do this, but she had tears in her eyes, McGonagall was crying. I had to hear her out. She told me that if I heard any suspicious rumors or saw something in the Prophet or had a feeling, not just in my scar, but one of those bad feelings that you feel like something bad will happen or a suspicious feeling, then I could leave the school and complete my mission as I see fit" explained Harry

"Well Harry I think that is the very mature thing to do, because here you are surrounded by people that support you and would die for you and the Light side of this war" said Hermione, she had completely forgotten that Harry wasn't planning on returning, she was so hyped up on her pregnancy and had forgotten everything that happened after she told George about the pregnancy because she was so happy that he didn't leave her. Plus she wouldn't have been able to go anymore anyways, since she was due to have a baby in three months. She still had to find a way to tell Harry, Ron and Ginny about it. All the teachers at school know, since Hermione had to inform McGonagall before summer holidays began so she could inform then teachers and they could all support her in her classes and in case of any problems then Madame Pomfrey could find a solution.

Not long after Hermione and Harry's conversation they arrived at the school. In the Great Hall they enjoyed a great feast, and Harry was reasonably happy about school this year, was that he wouldn't have Malfoy or Snape to deal with, considering they both fled. He did however, add them to his list. So far he had,

#1- VOLDEMORT!!!
#2-Severus Snape
#3- Draco Malfoy
#4- Bellatrix Lestrage
#5- Wormtail
#6-Lucius Malfoy
#7- All Death Eaters

Note- Never trust a Ministry Official or Minister for Magic. All power hungry bastards

After the feast, Hermione headed up to her new dorm, she had forgotten to tell Harry and Ron that she had been named Head Girl, and told them when she went in the opposite direction of the Gryffindor Common Rooms. She was so tired that she didn't even wait up to see who the Head Boy was. She stayed up an extra twenty minutes so as to write George a letter informing her of her safe return to Hogwarts and her new dorm, and that no problems arose with the baby. She was getting quite big and none of her class mates noticed, she could understand Ginny, Harry and Ron to a certain degree since they had seen her all summer and not noticed the slow growth of her belly, but none of her fellow Gryffindor's had seen her all summer and still none had noticed her stomach was larger and rounder. As long as rumors didn't spread Hermione was content.

A/N: I forgot to add a note to my last chapter..well here's chapter 3 and 4..both added on the same day lol..one at 3:30 am and one at 11:50 pm. Well Hermione's back at school, Harry's rescued from the Dursley's..he's not after the Hocruxes! OMG I know!!!! EEK lol...but they aren't forgotten..they are essential to Voldemort's destruction or in my story does Voldemort win?!?!!? Dun Dun Dun!!! lol
Well hope you enjoyed..this chapter doesn't have a lot of dialogue in it..so if you are into the dialoge thing..then sorry but your probs won't like this chapter much..but don't worry..dialogue is starting again next chapter..I have the next 10 all planned and written out lol..i prefer to write on paper rather than the computer..well hope you enjoyed..R&R